Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography … - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

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Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go. Bid me forget!

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How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

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Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.

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The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

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We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

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